“Let the father be the head of the family, the master of his own household; and let him treat them as an angel would treat them.”
| Journal of Discourses, 4:55
Self-mastery
LDS Quotes on Self-Mastery
God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.
“May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don’t reach beyond your capacity. Don’t set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don’t feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don’t compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.”
| September 2009 Liahona
“When we’re tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.”
| The Continuous Atonement
“The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
“The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. There is no other limitation in either direction. And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish a dominion over himself will have no dominion over others, he who masters himself shall be king.”
| Improvement Era, June 1966, p. 525.
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the master of his passions.”
“What we call self-mastery is the necessary price for the things upon which our hearts are set.”
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”